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I think Chi is more of a visualization tool. A way to simplify the forces brought on by contraction of muscles in a specific way and delivered to a target through a contact point to something that the average person can comprehend and memorize, and “feel” it.

Actually, they’ve got it a bit backward. The idea behind the Force was derived from some of the notions of chi.
I’ve looked into Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Qigong, and Baguazhang. I’ve taken diagrams of meridian points and lined them up with anatomy diagrams. The points may not exactly follow nerves or veins, but they do align with a combination. There is a practicality which makes the mysticism superfluous. Likewise I suspect that the idea of chi originally could have been compared with a scientific explanation, but over the years it has been subjected to “god of the gaps” arguments.

So chi only works on believers. Doesn’t that kind of make it fairly useless even if it did exist? I guess I’ve been training my defense for years.

Pressure point striking does work to a point. People’s physiologies differ enough that it makes it difficult and unreliable. They mostly just cause pain. It is nothing like what these people say that they can do.

You know, kinda like how in the old AD&D rules a Psionic could only use their powers on another Psionic, something about the mind having to be open to receiving the energy. So best defense against psionics was to not be one, then they only had one attack they could use, and there was a helm/ring/whatever that defended against that one too.

In defense of the idea, I keep my mind open to possibilities out there that seem magical but have a true scientific explanation we just don’t understand it yet. We encounter one every day: gravity. We cannot definitively prove where gravity comes from, what causes it, how to control it, generate it, or abate it. But it’s there. Could there be other similar forces? Possibly.

And maybe somewhere along the line someone stumbled on them. Maybe that’s why some people are thought to be autistic – they got tapped into some new perception and since noone around understands it and can teach them how to perceive it they’re left alone in a weird little bubble with noone to show them the way.

But that’s just the ponderings of someone wondering what fantastic things might still be out there waiting to be discovered and understood. Do I think there’s a grain of truth or fact to be found in 99.99999% of the cases claiming things like this “Chi Master”? Pffffft. Hell no. If you have to whip out an axcuse like “their tongue being in the wrong place in their mouth” to cover a nonbeliever just staring at you when you try to known them out with your mojo … then ayep, you;re a charlatan who needs to be run out of town on a RAIL.

Because although sufficiently advanced science can be mistaken for magic (yeah, paraphrasing there), one thing holds true: replicable and verifiable results. And this twit ain’t got ’em.